Day 2, Big Bang

Day 2 was a lot better than the first day. I arrived at 10 and was instantly set a task of collecting some stuff from the BBC which is just around the corner, so I kept my coat on and popped over, experiencing the rude security men to get my task done. This was good for me because I had no idea where the BBC was so therefore useful to find out.

Once back from the BBC I delivered the package and then was sent to sit in on the Colour Grading room, where the man ( I forget his name now) was using a piece of equipment called Baselight. This was a large piece of kit

worth thousands of pounds in value. The colour grader would scroll

through the edit matching up the shots so that they look similar and as if they were filmed at the same time. He was editing a natural history programme called 'Gorillas' so there were a lot of interesting jungle shots in which he could enhance the colour to make it look really good. When going through the edit he realised the voice over mentioning that a storm was brewing, so he took this opportunity to change the grading to a darker moodier look so th

at it tied in with the fact that there was a storm brewing, this highlighted to me the importance of listening to the voice over and watching the show so that you are able to gain a feel for it, and have a good idea on what to do. Whilst in the room he explained to me how he usually gets about 30minutes worth done in one day, depending on the programme, he also told me that at the beginning of the edit quite often a producer will sit in with him so they can chat about the look and feel they are going for and then he shows them an example and they

usually say "yes thats good" and then let him get on with the edit. I really enjoyed the colour grading suite, it was interesting to see just how much grading can really improve the look and feel of a show.

After an hour and a half in a dark room colour grading I was sent on the lunch round, still in a daze from the dark room, I left to collect the lunch stepping out on the road and nearly being hit by a car, were talking inches away from being hospitalised, thinking this wasn't a good idea Idecided to from then on look both ways whilst crossing the road!!!!!!

Back from lunch I was sent to go and sit in with Ben again in the dubbing suite, this time he had just started a new episode of "deadly 60" this was a good opportunity because I had missed the beginning of his edit the previous day, Ben was just starting on the dialogue and was scrolling through the sound making it perfect, he was picking up on things I wasn't even noticing such as small clicks in the tracks which he was able to edit out, from now on I will have to learn to keep my ears open and listening very carefully when dubbing my own work.

Overall a good day at Big Bang with lots learned and taken in, and the best thing about it was I only had to make one cup of tea all day!!!!!

Day 1 at the Big Bang

Things didn't really kick off with a big bang in all honesty, as it was a quiet morning in a small production company, after arriving I sat and spoke with Laura Morris who is the runner/ receptionist at Big Bang, she asked me the kinds of things I was interested in so that she could set me up with some things of interest. My morning was mainly made up of tea runs and trips to the shops, (I can now make coffee) but whilst on my duties of supplying drinks to the higher beings I had a great chance to look around and see what goes on at Big Bang. They have several editing sweets some which run Final Cut and some that run Avid, they have specific editors for each piece of software. They also have a sound recording room where voice overs are recorded as well as foley sounds. At 1 o'clock it was time for some lunch and was given an hour of standing outside in the rain, after an hours soaking I was back to my tea and coffee runs, as you can guess I am now a dab hand in the hot drinks department, Just as I was thinking I better not be doing this all week Ben, one of the sound dubbers came in as I was washing up and said I was more than welcome to sit in with him as he was editing some sounds to "Deadly 60" which is a CBBC animal programme.



So once the drying up was finished I went and sat with Ben in his editing suite. He was halfway through his edit but he explained to me the process he had taken so far, firstly he said that he gets all the dialogue in place, and separates everything on to there individual tracks for example music on one track and dialogue on the other. He then goes through the edit each scene by scene firstly adding the atmos sounds and including any other sounds that were necessary. As he was going through the edit he was explaining each move he made which was very interesting and useful for me for future reference. We arrived to a piece in the edit where I plucked up the courage to suggest something to him, which to my shock he agreed with and added it to the edit, at this point in time I was pretty chuffed. I found the sound designing very interesting and Ben had a real knack for it and could visualise sounds in his head, I though that this would be a good technique to use for myself, he was also very quick with the key board shortcuts and got things done at a rapid pace even tho his computer was playing up, this highlighted the importance of finding quicker ways to do things. All in all a slow start to the day at Big Bang but did learn a lot not only about hot drinks but also sound design and how production companies work.

Skins Competition Entry

E4 was holding another competition so i again decided it would be a good idea for some practice and the possibilty to win a weeks work experience with the skins editors so hopefully i will win you can see my entry below.... if youre reading this go on the e4 website and vote yay! for it to help me win.. thanks

E4 esting competition

This a 10 second video imade for a competition on e4 in which you had to include the e4 logo and wasnt aloud to be longer than 10seconds, I decided to do it in a tetris theme using stop motion in which the last section of the e4 logo falls in to place, I madeit using a digital camera then exported it into final cut and added the music supplied, overall it was fun to mkae but i feel the quality could have been better and would of liked to have the know how and software to make it using computer graphics anyway here it is....

My E4 Esting competition attempt from Sean Pearce on Vimeo.

A Short Movie teaser trailer

here is some of the footage i have been helping to shoot for a friend, no where near completion but i thought id put it on my blog for people to see what ive been up to, hope you enjoy

Shit out'a luck trailer from Sean Pearce on Vimeo.

Piracy

More practice with the camera and some editing on final cut, just a short re-make of the annoying piracy advert which is on all the dvds which you are unable to skip!!!!!!!!!

Untitled from Sean Pearce on Vimeo.

Top gear re make

some editing and filming practice